Sunday 6 July 2008

Of Mice and Men - the title

The full text of the 1785 poem by Robert Burns, from which Steinbeck took the name of his novel, is available at http://www.bartleby.com/106/144.html , where the words "o' mice an' men" occur in line 39 in the seventh verse.
The language is old, not standard English, and is very difficult for native speakers, which is why some words and phrases are glossed to help us.

There is also an audio file of the poem being recited that you can download from http://www.electricscotland.com/burns/ToAMouse.rm
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References

Burns, R. (1785). To a Mouse, On turning her up in her nest with the plough. In Palgrave, F. T. (ed.). (1875). The Golden Treasury. London: Macmillan [Electronic version]. On Bartleby.com Retrieved July 6, 2008 from http://www.bartleby.com/106/144.html

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